Trump administration expects deal with Harvard by end-June, Washington Post reports
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
South China Morning Post
2 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Secret Service, known for protecting US presidents, now hunts cryptocurrency scammers
The scam began with a message, then a friendly exchange. A stranger directed the victim to a cryptocurrency investment site that appeared professional – slick design, charts, even customer support. The first deposit showed a modest profit. So did the next. Encouraged, the victim sent more, even borrowing money to keep up. Then, without warning, the platform stopped responding. The account balance disappeared. 'That's how they do it,' Jamie Lam, an investigative analyst with the US Secret Service, told law enforcement officials in Bermuda last month. 'They'll send you a photo of a really good-looking guy or girl. But it's probably some old guy in Russia.' Secret Service investigators traced the fraud to the domain name behind the fake investment site. Using open-source tools, they found out when it was registered, by whom and how it had been paid for. A cryptocurrency payment pointed them to another wallet. A brief VPN failure exposed an IP address. Lam is part of the agency's Global Investigative Operations Centre or GIOC, a team specialising in digital financial crimes. Their tools are software, subpoenas and spreadsheets, not badges or guns. 'It's not always that hard,' Lam said. 'Sometimes you just need patience.' Patience and digital tools have helped the GIOC seize nearly US$400 million in digital assets over the last decade, a figure not previously reported, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified discussing private conversations.
The Standard
5 hours ago
- The Standard
Musk announces forming of 'America Party' in further break from Trump
Elon Musk speaks during a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. (REUTERS/Nathan Howard/File Photo)
South China Morning Post
12 hours ago
- South China Morning Post
Trump wants to ground China's drones - but have they flown too high to reach?
US President Donald Trump issues quite a few executive orders. So many, in fact, that one could be forgiven for not keeping up with them all. Advertisement But amid the rapid-fire policy changes that have come to characterise his administration, one arrived last month that could have drastic implications for the world's drone market – and China's role in it. The order, signed June 6, requires government agencies to prioritise using home-grown unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) 'to the maximum extent permitted by law', and pledges to slash regulations to speed up domestic production and development. While this is not the first time Trump and others in Washington have attempted to halt China's rise in the lucrative field – Beijing's firms remain world leaders in the industry – it shows the US has not given up the fight. However, analysts and industry insiders alike said China's pre-eminent place in the global drone market has made it hard for the US to remove its products from supply chains, at least for now. Advertisement Paul Nielsen, managing director at Proxim – a Pennsylvania-based firm which uses drones for commercial inspections – said he sees the executive order as a negotiation tactic, but bristles at the 'unnerving' prospect of its implementation. 'There are only half a dozen non-Chinese companies in the world that make drones. My guess is the ban will raise costs,' he said during last week's Paris Air Show. 'It's basic economics.'
